scary

so, this morning kassidy woke up, no big deal. later, she's telling me she has bug bites and they are itchy. okay. then she makes the comment, "mommy, it's really bad." that catches my attention and i ask her to show me. she lifts up her shirt and there is a huge, HUGE amount of what looks to be mosquito bites or some sort of bite. so many i cannot count them all. my first thought is she was outside playing last night w/o bug screen on. where was she playing? did she do anything weird? i call michael. he tells me what i had thought already. call the nurse and ask what they think and if i can do anything more than benadryl and hydrocortisone lotion. a little later she calls me back. what i'm doing is fine and if they get more red, swollen or spread, come in tomorrow. so i give her her next scheduled dose of benadryl. by now she is quite irritable, whiny and clingy. i give her a bath, hoping it will calm them down. after bath time, we both lay down and take a nap. (she will actually take a nap that way, since she doesn't usually take them anymore). around 6 we wake up. she goes and shows daddy her bites. he comes in and tells me they look more like whelps. i look and i guess where she had stopped scratching them, they didn't look like bites anymore, a few places did, but the large spots did not. so now, i'm freaking out even more. i decide that i'd feel better if we just went and had her looked at, especially after worried over it all day. (i should have just went with my gut earlier, but took other's advice instead.) after waiting for awhile, we finally got the nurse practioner and then she tells us she wants to get the doctor's opinion as well. so we wait a little longer. he comes in, looks and leaves. it's hives. from what we do not know. i've been wracking my brain trying to think what could have done it. i have no idea. nothing has changed. now, i'm glad she has the medicine she needs, but i'm so worried she'll have another reaction and it'll be worse next time. by the time they saw her, she couldn't close her hand all the way and her elbows were swollen. then her hands became swollen. after my allergy testing, we talked with her doctor to see if we should get her tested. she advised us that she didn't want to do it unless we were willing to do the shots at this time. why get tested if you aren't going to do the treatment. it's a lot for a child. it was a lot for me. now, i'm thinking we might need to go ahead with getting her tested so that she doesn't have some severe attack. i just don't know. it all just scared me. i want to take care of her and provide her the best health options that we can. i don't know what to do. on one hand, it would be kinda easy for us to just both get the shots since i need to start them as well. on the other, i hate to see her freak out over shots. anyone want to give me their opinion?